Kentucky Department of Corrections improves online offender lookup

5:16 PM,
Jul. 1, 2013

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The Courier-Journal

The Kentucky Department of Corrections Monday launched an improved version of its Kentucky Offender Online Lookup system, known as KOOL.

The improvements are the result of House Bill 463, the criminal justice reform legislation passed in 2011, the department said in a news release.

KOOL previously included information such as names of offenders, their crimes, sentence lengths, photographs and parole eligibility dates. Now it also includes data on the expected time to serve, good-time release date, maximum expiration of sentence date and the historic percentage of time served for ...